how to communicate to the outside to my business if needed?

[Nipple]

There may be one other possibility, but it's really pushing the definition of "reliable": talk to one of the hams (we have several here on the board, all good folks) and see if you can work-out a phone-patch or packet data feed. I've seen them do some amazing things... and I've seen them crash and burn too. It's a crap-shoot, but it might bear consideration as a fallback plan if you REALLY gotta be in touch.

Nope, not gonna happen. One of the most basic rules of amateur radio is that you can't do business over it. Yes there is a phone patch on the tower that serves BRC, but no ham is going to let you call your business and check up on operations over it. It's a flat violation of FCC rules. They would be risking their license.

Would one of the HAMs let me call my mother in law and sing Give Up The Funk (Tear the Roof Off The Sucker)?

It's important.

[chuckularone]

There may be one other possibility, but it's really pushing the definition of "reliable": talk to one of the hams (we have several here on the board, all good folks) and see if you can work-out a phone-patch or packet data feed. I've seen them do some amazing things... and I've seen them crash and burn too. It's a crap-shoot, but it might bear consideration as a fallback plan if you REALLY gotta be in touch.

Nope, not gonna happen. One of the most basic rules of amateur radio is that you can't do business over it. Yes there is a phone patch on the tower that serves BRC, but no ham is going to let you call your business and check up on operations over it. It's a flat violation of FCC rules. They would be risking their license.

Would one of the HAMs let me call my mother in law and sing Give Up The Funk (Tear the Roof Off The Sucker)?

It's important.

Actually, music (including singing) is (for some arcane reason) also banned from amateur radio communications.

[unitivity]

i was thinking of communicating with birds.

that can talk!

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